Prophecies one

Earth:

Hitomi is sleeping in her bed. It is a gentle spring night in Tokyo; suddenly her pleasant dream turns to a nightmare. Hitomi looks outward seeing a streak cross the sky, the streak of a comet. She sees the land far beneath her and feels the night air rushing past. Suddenly the countryside below erupts in blue/green flame. The flame swallows everything, darkness surrounds Hitomi. Next she sees herself kneeling silently awaiting someone. A shrouded swordsman appears raising his sword and plunging it toward Hitomi. Clutching her chest, she sits up in bed, holding back a scream. Tears burn her eyes.

Hitomi "This was not a vision, I just had a bad dream"

She runs a nervous hand through her long hair. Opens her bedside table drawer she removes a delicate white feather and caresses it across her cheek. Even with the passing of three years Hitomi's love for the far away Van is still as strong as the day she left Gaea. With a small sigh she thinks, "If dreams really do come true we will be together again." Holding the feather close she drifts back to sleep.

On the train to school Yukari and Hitomi are excitedly talking about graduation and the future, mostly Yukari's future.

Yukari: "Amano is coming home and I think he's going to propose. I thought he would wait till after graduation, but he has seemed so restless lately."

Hitomi: "Restless how: I though he was on the honor roll at University."

Yukari: " He is. It's honor that is bothering him. He thinks that life today doesn't have any. He's done so well in history and he's tops on the fencing team. Now he wants to learn the ancient art of swordsmanship, can you believe it? He calls it the "noble way of the warrior."

Hitomi: " I see"

What Hitomi thinks of though is the first time she saw young Van at the castle in Fanilia taking instruction from Balgus.

(Van removes the sword from the sheath at his side and in ceremonial fashion arches it down from his side to the floor. With a turn of his wrist he changes the angle of the blade then raises it over his head. Letting out a primitive cry of death, he charges the unmoving Balgus. Balgus easily deflects the blow " Your not charging aggressively enough Lord ")

Yukari: " Hitomi, are you listening? You know I blame you for this I know Amano longs for the kind of adventures that you told us about on Gaea. Say are you still planning to come to see the comet with us tomorrow night aren't you."

Hitomi: " The comet, I'd almost forgotten (she pauses) I had another of those dreams last night, but it was clearer and I remember more of it."

Yukari: "Uh?" (Eyes wide and brows raised she isn't sure if Hatomi was talking to her or if that statement was aimed at Hatomi herself.) " Tell me about the dream, you know what they say-if you share your dream experience it no longer has any power over you."

Hitomi: " Yukari, it was just a dream not a vision!"

Yukari: " Still it couldn't hurt."

Hitomi: " Most of it is still somewhere back in my mind where I just can't seem to reach it, but I do remember the comet and being high in the sky as if I were flying."

Yukari: " That was a bad dream?"

Hitomi: " Let me finish will you. It felt bad as if there was a power there. The power of destruction and I think someone was going to kill me."

The train pulls into the station, ending any further conversation as the girls leave and head off to school.